100 Great Songs to Publish a Book to, #43: Genesis, Fading Lights

The ultimate Banks ‘terminal song’, written at the height of the band’s commercial success, and proof that Genesis never completely abandoned their progressive roots.  But progress they did, and 1991’s We Can’t Dance stands if nothing else as the defining example of how easy Genesis had by then found it to toss out million-selling hit singles with a ridiculously cool flick of the wrist, while still producing songs like this to leave any self-respecting Prog-rock fan slack-jawed in wonder.

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